View not found error when enabling error pages in ASP.NET MVC project

Question

In my ASP.NET MVC project I have the /errors/error.html page as a general error page and a second /errors/error404.aspx that handles the 404 errors.

<customErrors mode="On" redirectMode="ResponseRewrite" defaultRedirect="/errors/error.html">
    <error statusCode="404" redirect="/errors/error404.aspx" />
</customErrors>

Also, I have in my Global.asax file a general handler that logs all uncaught exceptions for logging purposes.

public void Application_Error(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    Exception ex = Server.GetLastError();
    Common.Core.LogError(ex); // Saving exception details in the database
}

The above setup works well except for when I have a general error (e.g. a 500 error) the Application_Error logs this error below:

The view 'Error' or its master was not found or no view engine supports the searched locations. The following locations were searched:
~/Views/app/Error.aspx
~/Views/app/Error.ascx
~/Views/Shared/Error.aspx
~/Views/Shared/Error.ascx
~/Views/app/Error.cshtml
~/Views/app/Error.vbhtml
~/Views/Shared/Error.cshtml
~/Views/Shared/Error.vbhtml

The Exception from the actual error is not logged at all.

How can I avoid this error?

P.S. For anyone who might ask, I tried to put my error pages as views inside a controller but also I couldn't make it work with the redirectMode="ResponseRewrite" option.

netheodw · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-21 09:27:42Z

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You are trying to handle errors in a non-ASP.NET MVC way, in an ASP.NET MVC project. To resolve your issue, you could comment the line filters.Add(new HandleErrorAttribute()); in the FilterConfig.cs file. See the snippet below.

public class FilterConfig
{
    public static void RegisterGlobalFilters(GlobalFilterCollection filters)
    {
        //filters.Add(new HandleErrorAttribute());
    }
}

answered Jun 21, 2016 at 9:27

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Tasos K. Over a year ago

Thanks for the answer, that made it work! Yes, I realized that I was a bit away from the MVC way, but the MVC way seemed a bit of overkill at the time.

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